Mentions:
1: Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Lab - Life peer) Poverty rates are higher, at 27% compared to 19%.There are also disparities in housing, with families - Speech Link
2: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, in its report UK Poverty 2022, talks of“a gap of around 12 percentage - Speech Link
3: Baroness Andrews (Lab - Life peer) The Trussell Trust has been measuring the increasing dependence of disabled people on food banks, for - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) The royal college says:“This increase is driven by serious issues such as poverty, housing and food insecurity - Speech Link
5: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) what the Government are doing to help those in poverty. - Speech Link
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1: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) Police UK Disability Sport provides adaptive sports to the police community regionally and nationally - Speech Link
2: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) Members on the latest figures for the distribution of food parcels. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Under the last Labour Government, 200,000 more pensioners were living in absolute poverty, and we had - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) High housing costs both cause and worsen poverty. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) I come to the issue from my long-standing concern about poverty. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) It is clear that the Bill has given us all food for thought and that we will have our work cut out during - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Christian Wakeford (Lab - Bury South) Can the Minister explain why the number of elderly individuals resorting to food banks has doubled in - Speech Link
2: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) I will repeat it: in 2023, 1% of low-income pensioners lived in a household that had accessed a food - Speech Link
3: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) But 2 million pensioners are in poverty. - Speech Link
4: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) to run programmes to support autistic people into employment, including local supported employment, Disability - Speech Link
5: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) early stage of the health journey for those falling out of work and going into long-term sickness and disability - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) challenges in finding jobs: many of the jobs we now have in Cornwall that are linked to tourism or food - Speech Link
2: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) They organised holidays for the children of the miners, provided childcare and food during the school - Speech Link
3: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) We are home to hundreds of small businesses, and we have been instrumental in the fight against poverty - Speech Link
4: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) It provided injury benefit for six months, disability benefit for the permanently injured, and a death - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) It is still high crime rates, high waiting lists, higher taxes, higher levels of poverty, less pay, less - Speech Link
2: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) and Rural Affairs and the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, my hon. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I will ensure that the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has heard the particular - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) This is a matter that should concern everyone because most disability is acquired, whether from the built - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) Nearly 8 million people of working age in the UK now say that they have a significant disability or health - Speech Link
2: Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell (Con - Life peer) year, the noble Baroness, Lady Lane-Fox, eloquently spoke about the vital role of business in tackling poverty - Speech Link
3: Baroness Valentine (XB - Life peer) It provides food for families, clothes and a safe place for parents to learn cooking skills. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Food education is paramount because you are what you eat; your gut is your second brain and what you - Speech Link
5: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) I also work for a disability assistance company, Microlink. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) inflation, and making extra payments on top to pensioners, those on benefits and households where there is disability - Speech Link
2: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) have already outlined the extra payments that are being made to pensioners and those on benefits and disability - Speech Link
3: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) More than one in four children in Wales lives in poverty. - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) proud that since 2010, with a range of measures, the Government have overseen a significant fall in poverty - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) are over 2,500 food banks operating in the UK.Giving children in poverty a free school meal gives them - Speech Link
2: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) We have the least generous offers around school food, and the highest rates of children in poverty who - Speech Link
3: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) higher than national averages and where, as a city, one in three people are in food poverty. - Speech Link
4: Ian Lavery (Lab - Wansbeck) Food poverty, child poverty, pensioner poverty—whatever we want to call these issues— are political choices - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) Member for Twickenham asked about disability. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) and food education that fuels the future—all within school budgets”.We can go much further. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) one parent—and 34% of children living in families where someone has a disability were in poverty.The - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) We often talk about food poverty, energy poverty, period poverty and hygiene poverty. - Speech Link